千金难买 — Chinese idiom
千金难买
qiān jīn nán mǎi
Traditional: 千金難買
Meaning
- can't be bought for one thousand in gold
Character by character
- 千qiānthousand; many, numerous; very
- 金jīngold, metal; money
- 难nánhard, difficult, arduous; unable
- 买mǎito buy, to purchase; to bribe, to persuade
Idioms sharing a character
- 一刻千金 yī kè qiān jīn
- 一字千金 yī zì qiān jīn
- 一掷千金 yī zhì qiān jīn
- 一日千里 yī rì qiān lǐ
- 一落千丈 yī luò qiān zhàng
- 一言千金 yī yán qiān jīn
- 一诺千金 yī nuò qiān jīn
- 千依百顺 qiān yī bǎi shùn
- 千刀万剐 qiān dāo wàn guǎ
- 千千万万 qiān qiān wàn wàn
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